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Hengtao Tang; Yingxiao Qian; Susan Porter-Voss – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Integrating computer science (CS) content into existing STEM curricula emerges as a viable solution to broadening rural students' participation in CS, but rural students have a significant proficiency gap in science and mathematics. By focusing on an English language arts course as the context for CS integration, this exploratory study examined…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Computer Science, Self Efficacy, Robotics
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Jacqui Taylor; Monica Whitty – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
We propose that psychology graduates are uniquely placed to work in the cybersecurity industry due to their understanding of human behavior and the possession of skills needed to address cybersecurity issues. However, there are challenges in attracting psychology graduates to the cybersecurity industry as they may not be fully aware of how skills…
Descriptors: Psychology, Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Literacy
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Amy Hutchison; Qi Si; Jamie Colwell; Erdogan Kaya; Eileen Jakeway; Brittany Miller; Kristie Gutierrez; Kelly Regan; Anna Evmenova – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: In recent years, computer science education has emerged as a necessary part of school curricula for students of all ages. With such momentum in this direction, it is essential that program designers, educators, and researchers ensure that computer science education is designed to be inclusive, effective, and engaging for all students.…
Descriptors: Coding, Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Literacy
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Dahya, Negin; Jenson, Jennifer; Fong, Katrina – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2017
Few studies compare educational programming designed on principles of inclusive pedagogy and feminist practice for both girls and boys. Broadly defined, inclusive pedagogy refers to theory and practice in education that is adaptable and responsive to the intersections of difference (class, race, culture, gender, sexuality, ability) and aims to…
Descriptors: Video Games, Gender Differences, Feminism, Teaching Methods
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Ernst, Jeremy V.; Clark, Aaron C. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2012
In 2009, the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools worked with researchers at the William and Ida Friday Institute to produce and evaluate the use of game creation by secondary students as a means for learning content related to career awareness in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, with particular emphasis in…
Descriptors: Computers, Educational Technology, Vocational Education, Student Attitudes
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers